Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Open survey on participation biases in OSM

[Harald Kliems]

Dear Zoe:
Thanks for doing the study -- I saw it posted earlier in OSM Weekly. I look
forward to seeing the results, whatever they may be.  And I'm quite ashamed
(but not surprised) by the open hostility your study is facing on this list
and elsewhere.

Best,
 Harald (hobbesvsboyle)

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 3:51 AM Zoe Gardner <zoegardn...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All
>
> Further to my email yesterday regard, I would like to reassure subscribers
> here that the research is bona fide. I included a link to my University
> webpage in the original post which I thought would give the survey the
> required credence.
>
> I agree with Charlotte that it would have been more credible to send the
> post from my University email and this was my error. Apologies for any lack
> of uncertainty in this respect. Please do complete the survey if you are
> inclined!
>
> Best wishes
> Zoe
>
> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 7:36 PM, <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If it helps, I can confirm that I have met the researcher concerned at an
>> OSM meetup in Nottingham. We talked about the project a bit, and what's
>> been said about the research here doesn't differ from what was s‎aid then.
>>
>> Happy to answer questions from the US board if anyone thinks it will add
>> to the "web of trust" here :)
>>
>>
>> *From: *Charlotte Wolter
>> *Sent: *Monday, 4 September 2017 19:25
>> *To: *Talk-US@openstreetmap.org
>> *Subject: *[Talk-us] Fwd: Open survey on participation biases in OSM
>>
>> Follks,
>>
>> It would be nice if we could get some confirmation that this is
>> a real research projects being done by an actual researcher at Nottingham.
>> If it is legit, why is the return email address from Gmail rather than the
>> university?
>> Is there some mechanism that we can set up to confirm that the
>> research is for real, such as running it through the US board first? I
>> don't mind contributing to a survey. I just want to be sure it is for real.
>>
>> Charlotte
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Zoe Gardner <zoegardn...@gmail.com>
>> To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org ...snip... talk...@openstreetmap.org
>> Subject: [Talk-us] Open survey on participation biases in OSM
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear OSM talk subscriber
>>
>> I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the
>> University of Nottingham in the UK, interested in participation biases in
>> geospatial crowd-sourced projects such as OSM and other Volunteered
>> Geographical Information (VGI) projects. My current research project is
>> concerned with the way in which participation biases in OSM may potentially
>> affect the usability of the data that is collected and subsequently what is
>> available to location-based service providers that use OSM as their primary
>> geospatial database.
>> The project is motivated by recent research that has found a strong male
>> bias in OSM participation. This has led to assertions that various
>> geospatial knowledge could be under represented or poorly recorded on the
>> map. However, the actual consequences of this bias remain little explored
>> or reported. By collecting information about contributors to OSM, which can
>> then be analyzed along with their editing patterns, the impacts of this
>> bias might begin to be measured and therefore better understood. I have
>> therefore published an online survey designed to collect information
>> directly from OSM editors and I would like to invite as many of you as
>> possible to participate. The survey is anonymous and takes a couple of
>> minutes to complete.
>> If you are an OSM contributor and are interested in or would like to
>> participate in the study, please click on the link below, which will take
>> you to the Bristol Online Survey website where you will find more
>> information and an opportunity to participate in the survey. As a small
>> incentive, at the close of the survey in a few weeks' time, 60 respondents
>> will be drawn at random to receive a £15 Amazon voucher.
>> To participate in the survey, click on the link below:
>> https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles
>> Please do think about participating. It is hoped that knowledge about the
>> way participation biases impact on crowd-sourced maps will enable new
>> strategies to be developed to address any resulting voids in the geospatial
>> information provided by amateur mappers. In turn this could strengthen the
>> role played by platforms such as OSM in urban planning and sustainability,
>> and could raise the pr

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Open survey on participation biases in OSM

[Jerry Clough - OSM]

Sorry, this was drawn to my attention.
I can vouch that Zoe Gardner is a researcher at Nottingham University 
Geospatial Institute. Her institutional webpage is here: Zoe Gardner - The 
University of Nottingham
  
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Zoe took the time to come along to the Nottingham OSM July meeting, and I've 
bumped into her at a University facility on the Jubilee Campus site when I had 
a further discussion of her research (and probably caused her coffee to get a 
bit cool, in which case my apologies). I also believe, and I think it is stated 
in some of her emails, that she is collaborating with Dr Peter Mooney of 
Maynooth University in Ireland. He was a co-editor on a recent scholarly 
multi-author book on OSM, and has presented work at various SotM conferences.
I have no affiliation with Nottingham University nor with her research. I 
therefore cannot say why her institutional email address has not been used, 
although I would expect that for this type of activity a distinct email address 
is probably useful to avoid confusion with regular day-job communications.
I have not checked, but normally research of this kind, storing personal data, 
will need some approval via an ethics committee. Furthermore institutions in 
Britain and Europe need to adhere to current (and future) European data 
protection legislation.
Requiring researchers to seek approval for their research via OSMF, or local 
chapters (affiliated or otherwise), would, in my view, raise a rather high bar 
for academics, and one which may be perceived to be contra OSM's openness. On 
the other hand the it may be appropriate for OSMF to consider guidelines w.r.t. 
collection of personal data of mappers for academic research, particularly as 
the new European directive comes into force next year.
HTH,
Jerry CloughSK53



  From: Charlotte Wolter <techl...@techlady.com>
 To: Talk-US@openstreetmap.org 
 Sent: Monday, 4 September 2017, 19:25
 Subject: [Talk-us] Fwd: Open survey on participation biases in OSM
   
Follks,

  It wouldbe nice if we could get some confirmation that this is a real 
researchprojects being done by an actual researcher at Nottingham. If it 
islegit, why is the return email address from Gmail rather than theuniversity?
  Is theresome mechanism that we can set up to confirm that the 
research is forreal, such as running it through the US board first? I don't 
mindcontributing to a survey. I just want to be sure it is for real.

Charlotte




From: Zoe Gardner<zoegardn...@gmail.com>
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org ...snip... talk...@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-us] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

 
 
Dear OSM talk subscriber
 
I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at theUniversity 
of Nottingham in the UK, interested in participation biases ingeospatial 
crowd-sourced projects such as OSM and other VolunteeredGeographical 
Information (VGI) projects. My current research project isconcerned with the 
way in which participation biases in OSM maypotentially affect the usability of 
the data that is collected andsubsequently what is available to location-based 
service providers thatuse OSM as their primary geospatial database.
The project is motivated by recent research that has found a strong malebias in 
OSM participation. This has led to assertions that variousgeospatial knowledge 
could be under represented or poorly recorded on themap. However, the actual 
consequences of this bias remain little exploredor reported. By collecting 
information about contributors to OSM, whichcan then be analyzed along with 
their editing patterns, the impacts ofthis bias might begin to be measured and 
therefore better understood. Ihave therefore published an online survey 
designed to collect informationdirectly from OSM editors and I would like to 
invite as many of you aspossible to participate. The survey is anonymous and 
takes a couple ofminutes to complete.
If you are an OSM contributor and are interested in or would like toparticipate 
in the study, please click on the link below, which will takeyou to the Bristol 
Online Survey website where you will find moreinformation and an opportunity to 
participate in the survey. As a smallincentive, at the close of the survey in a 
few weeks' time, 60respondents will be drawn at random to receive a £15 Amazon 
voucher.
To participate in the survey, click on the link below:
https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles
Please do think about participating. It is hoped that knowledge about theway 
participation biases impact on crowd-sourced maps will enable newstrategies to 
be developed to address any resulting voids in thegeospatial information 
provided by amateur mappers. In turn this couldstrengthen the role played by 
platforms such as OSM in urban planning andsustainability, and could raise the 
profile of t

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Open survey on participation biases in OSM

[Zoe Gardner]

Dear All

Further to my email yesterday regard, I would like to reassure subscribers
here that the research is bona fide. I included a link to my University
webpage in the original post which I thought would give the survey the
required credence.

I agree with Charlotte that it would have been more credible to send the
post from my University email and this was my error. Apologies for any lack
of uncertainty in this respect. Please do complete the survey if you are
inclined!

Best wishes
Zoe

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 7:36 PM, <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If it helps, I can confirm that I have met the researcher concerned at an
> OSM meetup in Nottingham. We talked about the project a bit, and what's
> been said about the research here doesn't differ from what was s‎aid then.
>
> Happy to answer questions from the US board if anyone thinks it will add
> to the "web of trust" here :)
>
>
> *From: *Charlotte Wolter
> *Sent: *Monday, 4 September 2017 19:25
> *To: *Talk-US@openstreetmap.org
> *Subject: *[Talk-us] Fwd: Open survey on participation biases in OSM
>
> Follks,
>
> It would be nice if we could get some confirmation that this is a
> real research projects being done by an actual researcher at Nottingham. If
> it is legit, why is the return email address from Gmail rather than the
> university?
> Is there some mechanism that we can set up to confirm that the
> research is for real, such as running it through the US board first? I
> don't mind contributing to a survey. I just want to be sure it is for real.
>
> Charlotte
>
>
>
> From: Zoe Gardner <zoegardn...@gmail.com>
> To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org ...snip... talk...@openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [Talk-us] Open survey on participation biases in OSM
>
>
>
> Dear OSM talk subscriber
>
> I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the
> University of Nottingham in the UK, interested in participation biases in
> geospatial crowd-sourced projects such as OSM and other Volunteered
> Geographical Information (VGI) projects. My current research project is
> concerned with the way in which participation biases in OSM may potentially
> affect the usability of the data that is collected and subsequently what is
> available to location-based service providers that use OSM as their primary
> geospatial database.
> The project is motivated by recent research that has found a strong male
> bias in OSM participation. This has led to assertions that various
> geospatial knowledge could be under represented or poorly recorded on the
> map. However, the actual consequences of this bias remain little explored
> or reported. By collecting information about contributors to OSM, which can
> then be analyzed along with their editing patterns, the impacts of this
> bias might begin to be measured and therefore better understood. I have
> therefore published an online survey designed to collect information
> directly from OSM editors and I would like to invite as many of you as
> possible to participate. The survey is anonymous and takes a couple of
> minutes to complete.
> If you are an OSM contributor and are interested in or would like to
> participate in the study, please click on the link below, which will take
> you to the Bristol Online Survey website where you will find more
> information and an opportunity to participate in the survey. As a small
> incentive, at the close of the survey in a few weeks' time, 60 respondents
> will be drawn at random to receive a £15 Amazon voucher.
> To participate in the survey, click on the link below:
> https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles
> Please do think about participating. It is hoped that knowledge about the
> way participation biases impact on crowd-sourced maps will enable new
> strategies to be developed to address any resulting voids in the geospatial
> information provided by amateur mappers. In turn this could strengthen the
> role played by platforms such as OSM in urban planning and sustainability,
> and could raise the profile of the important mapping work that you all do.
> In the meantime, if you would like to know more about me, my research
> activities or the project, please visit my University webpage (link below)
> and do not hesitate to get in touch directly or via the OSM messaging
> service.
> https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/zoe.gardner
> Thank you
>
> Zoe
> ___
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> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
>
>
> Charlotte Wolter
> 927 18th Street Suite A
> Santa Monica, California
> 90403
> +1-310-597-4040 <(310)%20597-4040>
> techl...@tech

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Open survey on participation biases in OSM

[Zoe Gardner]

Dear All

Further to my email yesterday regard, I would like to reassure subscribers
here that the research is bona fide. I included a link to my University
webpage in the original post which I thought would give the survey the
required credence.

I agree with Charlotte that it would have been more credible to send the
post from my University email and this was my error. Apologies for any lack
of uncertainty in this respect. Please do complete the survey if you are
inclined!

Best wishes
Zoe

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 7:36 PM, <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If it helps, I can confirm that I have met the researcher concerned at an
> OSM meetup in Nottingham. We talked about the project a bit, and what's
> been said about the research here doesn't differ from what was s‎aid then.
>
> Happy to answer questions from the US board if anyone thinks it will add
> to the "web of trust" here :)
>
>
> *From: *Charlotte Wolter
> *Sent: *Monday, 4 September 2017 19:25
> *To: *Talk-US@openstreetmap.org
> *Subject: *[Talk-us] Fwd: Open survey on participation biases in OSM
>
> Follks,
>
> It would be nice if we could get some confirmation that this is a
> real research projects being done by an actual researcher at Nottingham. If
> it is legit, why is the return email address from Gmail rather than the
> university?
> Is there some mechanism that we can set up to confirm that the
> research is for real, such as running it through the US board first? I
> don't mind contributing to a survey. I just want to be sure it is for real.
>
> Charlotte
>
>
>
> From: Zoe Gardner <zoegardn...@gmail.com>
> To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org ...snip... talk...@openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [Talk-us] Open survey on participation biases in OSM
>
>
>
> Dear OSM talk subscriber
>
> I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the
> University of Nottingham in the UK, interested in participation biases in
> geospatial crowd-sourced projects such as OSM and other Volunteered
> Geographical Information (VGI) projects. My current research project is
> concerned with the way in which participation biases in OSM may potentially
> affect the usability of the data that is collected and subsequently what is
> available to location-based service providers that use OSM as their primary
> geospatial database.
> The project is motivated by recent research that has found a strong male
> bias in OSM participation. This has led to assertions that various
> geospatial knowledge could be under represented or poorly recorded on the
> map. However, the actual consequences of this bias remain little explored
> or reported. By collecting information about contributors to OSM, which can
> then be analyzed along with their editing patterns, the impacts of this
> bias might begin to be measured and therefore better understood. I have
> therefore published an online survey designed to collect information
> directly from OSM editors and I would like to invite as many of you as
> possible to participate. The survey is anonymous and takes a couple of
> minutes to complete.
> If you are an OSM contributor and are interested in or would like to
> participate in the study, please click on the link below, which will take
> you to the Bristol Online Survey website where you will find more
> information and an opportunity to participate in the survey. As a small
> incentive, at the close of the survey in a few weeks' time, 60 respondents
> will be drawn at random to receive a £15 Amazon voucher.
> To participate in the survey, click on the link below:
> https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles
> Please do think about participating. It is hoped that knowledge about the
> way participation biases impact on crowd-sourced maps will enable new
> strategies to be developed to address any resulting voids in the geospatial
> information provided by amateur mappers. In turn this could strengthen the
> role played by platforms such as OSM in urban planning and sustainability,
> and could raise the profile of the important mapping work that you all do.
> In the meantime, if you would like to know more about me, my research
> activities or the project, please visit my University webpage (link below)
> and do not hesitate to get in touch directly or via the OSM messaging
> service.
> https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/zoe.gardner
> Thank you
>
> Zoe
> ___
> Talk-us mailing list
> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
>
>
> Charlotte Wolter
> 927 18th Street Suite A
> Santa Monica, California
> 90403
> +1-310-597-4040 <(310)%20597-4040>
> techl...@tech

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Open survey on participation biases in OSM

[ajt1047]

  If it helps, I can confirm that I have met the researcher concerned at an OSM meetup in Nottingham. We talked about the project a bit, and what's been said about the research here doesn't differ from what was s‎aid then.Happy to answer questions from the US board if anyone thinks it will add to the "web of trust" here :)From: Charlotte WolterSent: Monday, 4 September 2017 19:25To: Talk-US@openstreetmap.orgSubject: [Talk-us] Fwd:  Open survey on participation biases in OSM

Follks,
It would
be nice if we could get some confirmation that this is a real research
projects being done by an actual researcher at Nottingham. If it is
legit, why is the return email address from Gmail rather than the
university?
Is there
some mechanism that we can set up to confirm that the research is for
real, such as running it through the US board first? I don't mind
contributing to a survey. I just want to be sure it is for real.
Charlotte

From: Zoe Gardner
<zoegardn...@gmail.com>
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org ...snip... talk...@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-us] Open survey on participation biases in OSM
 
 
Dear OSM talk subscriber
 
I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the
University of Nottingham in the UK, interested in participation biases in
geospatial crowd-sourced projects such as OSM and other Volunteered
Geographical Information (VGI) projects. My current research project is
concerned with the way in which participation biases in OSM may
potentially affect the usability of the data that is collected and
subsequently what is available to location-based service providers that
use OSM as their primary geospatial database.
The project is motivated by recent research that has found a strong male
bias in OSM participation. This has led to assertions that various
geospatial knowledge could be under represented or poorly recorded on the
map. However, the actual consequences of this bias remain little explored
or reported. By collecting information about contributors to OSM, which
can then be analyzed along with their editing patterns, the impacts of
this bias might begin to be measured and therefore better understood. I
have therefore published an online survey designed to collect information
directly from OSM editors and I would like to invite as many of you as
possible to participate. The survey is anonymous and takes a couple of
minutes to complete.
If you are an OSM contributor and are interested in or would like to
participate in the study, please click on the link below, which will take
you to the Bristol Online Survey website where you will find more
information and an opportunity to participate in the survey. As a small
incentive, at the close of the survey in a few weeks' time, 60
respondents will be drawn at random to receive a £15 Amazon voucher.
To participate in the survey, click on the link below:

https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles
Please do think about participating. It is hoped that knowledge about the
way participation biases impact on crowd-sourced maps will enable new
strategies to be developed to address any resulting voids in the
geospatial information provided by amateur mappers. In turn this could
strengthen the role played by platforms such as OSM in urban planning and
sustainability, and could raise the profile of the important mapping work
that you all do.
In the meantime, if you would like to know more about me, my research
activities or the project, please visit my University webpage (link
below) and do not hesitate to get in touch directly or via the OSM
messaging service.

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/zoe.gardner
Thank you
 
Zoe
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[Talk-us] Fwd: Open survey on participation biases in OSM

[Charlotte Wolter]

Follks,

It would be nice if we could get some 
confirmation that this is a real research 
projects being done by an actual researcher at 
Nottingham. If it is legit, why is the return 
email address from Gmail rather than the university?
Is there some mechanism that we can set 
up to confirm that the research is for real, such 
as running it through the US board first? I don't 
mind contributing to a survey. I just want to be sure it is for real.


Charlotte




From: Zoe Gardner 
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org ...snip... talk...@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-us] Open survey on participation biases in OSM



Dear OSM talk subscriber

I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham 
Geospatial Institute at the University of 
Nottingham in the UK, interested in 
participation biases in geospatial crowd-sourced 
projects such as OSM and other Volunteered 
Geographical Information (VGI) projects. My 
current research project is concerned with the 
way in which participation biases in OSM may 
potentially affect the usability of the data 
that is collected and subsequently what is 
available to location-based service providers 
that use OSM as their primary geospatial database.
The project is motivated by recent research that 
has found a strong male bias in OSM 
participation. This has led to assertions that 
various geospatial knowledge could be under 
represented or poorly recorded on the map. 
However, the actual consequences of this bias 
remain little explored or reported. By 
collecting information about contributors to 
OSM, which can then be analyzed along with their 
editing patterns, the impacts of this bias might 
begin to be measured and therefore better 
understood. I have therefore published an online 
survey designed to collect information directly 
from OSM editors and I would like to invite as 
many of you as possible to participate. The 
survey is anonymous and takes a couple of minutes to complete.
If you are an OSM contributor and are interested 
in or would like to participate in the study, 
please click on the link below, which will take 
you to the Bristol Online Survey website where 
you will find more information and an 
opportunity to participate in the survey. As a 
small incentive, at the close of the survey in a 
few weeks' time, 60 respondents will be drawn at 
random to receive a £15 Amazon voucher.

To participate in the survey, click on the link below:
https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles
Please do think about participating. It is hoped 
that knowledge about the way participation 
biases impact on crowd-sourced maps will enable 
new strategies to be developed to address any 
resulting voids in the geospatial information 
provided by amateur mappers. In turn this could 
strengthen the role played by platforms such as 
OSM in urban planning and sustainability, and 
could raise the profile of the important mapping work that you all do.
In the meantime, if you would like to know more 
about me, my research activities or the project, 
please visit my University webpage (link below) 
and do not hesitate to get in touch directly or via the OSM messaging service.

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/zoe.gardner
Thank you

Zoe
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